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- Spoken in slam: Poet brings swagger to SHS (Norwalk Advocate)
STAMFORD - The students had the words, but Mahogany Browne helped them find their voices. Browne, slam curator from the New York City-based Nuyorican Poets Cafe, worked with Stamford High School students during a two-hour poetry slam workshop after school Thursday.
- Pizza and RAGU (Creative Loafing Atlanta)
Two plays taste great but are less filling... By Curt Holman.Plays about food come with a sadistic quality. Hearing actors extol the taste sensations of delicious dishes can offer the audience an exercise in frustration. If the notorious rule of lap dances says, "You can look but not touch," then in food plays you can't even look because the lovingly described edibles almost never appear ...
- Printed Tuesday Calendar - RedOrbit
Printed Tuesday CalendarRedOrbit, TX - 27 minutes agoPoetry by Ed Stover and friends. Call 965-8481. "NEW MEMORIES" FOLK MUSIC FEST-- Saturday, 7 pm, the Buena Grange, 170 Highland Drive. Free admission. ...
- No Age's Dean Spunt - Exclaim!
Exclaim!No Age's Dean SpuntExclaim!, Canada - 22 minutes agoYou can’t really escape being a hypocrite, so an easy way to avoid it is I kind of write personal, political prose. I write poetry. ...
- Soldier's Mother Bridges Distance with Poetry (NPR)
When Frances Richey's son deployed to Iraq in 2004, their relationship was strained by their very different views about the war. While her son was gone, Frances Richey wrote poetry about her own experience and her son's. Richey speaks with NPR's Guy Raz about her poems and the bond they helped renew with her son.
- Youth Lines for May 4 - Bryan College Station Eagle
Youth Lines for May 4Bryan College Station Eagle, United States - 1 hour ago... received fifth place in guided speaking and sixth in prose; Anna Lindquist, level four, received second place in sight reading; Sasha Novikova, ...
- Statehood party planning starts: Borough discusses lighting ... - Kenai Peninsula Online
Statehood party planning starts: Borough discusses lighting ...Kenai Peninsula Online, AK - 36 minutes agoSome ideas already floating about include a trivia contest, a poster contest, sled dog races, a poetry contest and talent shows. ...
- Quit Your Day Job: Valet - Stereogum
Quit Your Day Job: ValetStereogum, NY - 2 hours agoA couple poetry and fanzines, limited edition CDs/CDRs/tapes, etc. It's not exactly a "record store," but our section is slowly growing bigger. ...
- A sprightly elegy - Al-Ahram Weekly
I never thought funerals could be such fun. But then, not every funeral has Khalid Galal as director. He has a keen eye for the ludicrous and an eerie knack for squeezing laughter out of the most lugubrious situations and gruesome events. Parody and ...
- The Hot Tub of Doom - Slate
In March of 1977, about 14 months before shooting began on The Shining , Jack Nicholson took a vacation to Colorado, apparently leaving his palace on Mulholland Drive in the care of Anjelica Huston, Marlon Brando's maid, and Chinatown director Roman ...
- Bisbee group offers positive environment, activities for kids (The Daily Dispatch)
Organizers of the first Bisbee Summerfest Youth Band Showcase met Wednesday to discuss final details for the show that will be held on Saturday in City Park in Bisbee and check out the T-shirts that will be available.
- Well, it’s poetry isn’t it? - Reuters UK
Well, it’s poetry isn’t it?Reuters UK, UK - 11 minutes agoIt’s not the first time lyrics of popular songwriters have gone under the academic microscope. Bob Dylan’s verses virtually spawned a faculty on their own ...
- Author Les Roberts unveils first Milan Jacovich mystery in six years - Cleveland Plain Dealer
When: 7 p.m. Monday. Where: Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 24519 Cedar Road (Legacy Village), Lyndhurst. Admission: Free. Call 216-691-7000. Even as the wider world fussed this spring over a "new" James Bond novel, celebrating the centennial of Ian Fleming ...
- Clinton the 'prayer' of Americans: Angelou - AFP
AFPClinton the 'prayer' of Americans: AngelouAFP - Apr 30, 2008Angelou, 80, author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," delivered a poem at former president Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration, and the African American ...Maya Angelou backs Clinton for president AFPall 23 news articles
- Was William Shakespeare a Jewish woman in disguise? (Haaretz Daily)
Amateur Shakespearologist John Hudson is not the first to question whether the actor William Shakespeare was actually the author of the body of work we've come to know as his, but Hudson is the first to suggest that the true author was a Jewish woman named Amelia Bassano Lanier.
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